Keith Brown (pole vaulter)

Keith Brown ( born June 15, 1913 † July 15, 1991 in Delmar, California ) was an American athlete who was successful in the early 1930s as a pole vaulter.

He jumped two world records:

• Junior WR with 4.21 m on June 18, 1932 in Cambridge
• WR with 4.39 m on June 1, 1935 in Boston. Brown thus improved the three -year-old record of his compatriot William Graber by 2 cm. Already in the following year, 1936, he lost the world record at George Varoff who jumped 4.43 m.

He won several times a championship title, which he had but always share with at least one other athletes. Only in 1935, when he jumped 4.39 meters world record, he became sole master.

• IC4A: 1933, 1934 and 1935
• AAU: 1933 (14-0 ), 1934 ( 13-11375 )
• Hall: 1933 4.11 m

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin Keith Brown did not participate. At a height of 1.88 m his competition weight was 73 kg.

Brown graduated from the University of Yale. Subsequently, he worked for Procter & Gamble Company in Chicago before he worked as an operator of a cattle ranch near Phoenix. He died aged 78 of emphysema.

He was married to Mary Lou. The marriage produced two daughters (Julia and Katherine ) and two sons ( Keith and Steve ) were born.